Hours ago, I finally reached half of my goal before the year ends and now have a natural Steem Power of over 500. I am also now officially considered a minnow which is backed by that awesome badge next to my Steem profile.
While many classify accounts with little Steem Power as a minnow, Busy.org and SteemPlus classify them as follows:
- Plankton 0 - 500 SP
- Minnow 500 - 5,000 SP
- Dolphin 5,000 - 50,000 SP
- Orca 50,000 - 500,000 SP
- Whale 500,000+ SP
So, What's the big deal of having 500SP?
Nothing much really! But while many people can easily power up 500 Steem (at current market price it's only around $700-$750), I for one just don't have that much free money lying around. If I want to be a part of this awesome community I literally have to build this account from scratch. I started building my follower base and increase what little visibility I have on the platform to which I think is the hardest thing when you don't have any solid investment on Steem. If you are a newbie who don't know anyone on this platform and is new to this crypto thing, then for sure you'll understand what I mean.
As seen on the image above, my first posts barely earned anything at all. I am just glad that they were above the dust threshold as I would have earned literally nothing. Even my #introduceyourself post only got $0.22. This goes on for days which was the reason why I almost gave up on this platform.
But everything changed when the fire nation attacked (lol sorry can't help it, Avatar reference). Everything changed when I joined 
However these very comment on that post above changed my whole Steem Journey:
I still don't know exactly what happened, maybe 
Also, hours before that I just made my very first ever technology-related post. Her username has the word "tech" on it so I don't know if it's all just a random coincidence or just pure luck on my part, but everything just worked on my favor. She upvoted my post, and to my surpise is being trailed by an orca/whale 
The post above was my very first post to reach above $1 payout. Luckily at that time I was still pretty interested on CTF's(Capture The Flag) competitions. That time most if not all of my posts where all about CTF tutorials, what tools to use, how to use it. How to solve those problems. I am honestly just a beginner at that field but I want to meet people with the same interest as mine.
Anyway, she upvoted those posts from time to time, however as I've said I'm only a beginner on CTF's so my knowledge is only limited to the basics. After a week or two, I eventually ran out of things to write. I then chose to write the things I have vast knowledge about and that is "Anime". At that time, she started getting busier with her work on utopian (She's now the CMO of @Utopian btw, How cool is that! ) and might have forgotten about me. Lol jk
I then used bidbots to increase my visibility and slowly convert those SBD's to Steem Power. Honestly, if I could go back in the past I would probably still use bidbots. Looking at my past posts there's just no way that it will be curied or ocd'd. But those huge fake $ below and beside the post motivated me to keep on steeming.
To keep my losses to a bearable degree after using bidbots, I then looked for another means of support. Anddd I found 
Although right now, with the current disappointing price of Steem/SBD their upvote really is not the same as before. However for all the support they have given me for 143 (♡♡♡) days now, I am planning on still supporting them and availing their services.
Because I was impressed as to how 
I just realized that this is now close to 1000words and I am still far away lol
As per my awesome schedule posted yesterday, I was supposed to do a livestream sketch today but 
Anyway Fast Forward to May of this year. That month was when I really started to grow here on Steem. I've got to know (befriend?), two of the most awesome orca/whales I have ever known in the platform and the main reason for this little achievement of mine, 
There are many things I am thankful towards
Based on mysteemitfriends.online ,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. DRAGON
While
What makes it more awesome is that according to this post: God is now (back) on Steem ! , which was shared by 
As a quick summary of progress:
| Month | Steem Power | Reputation | Followers |
|---|---|---|---|
| February | 41 | 52 | 250 |
| March | 84 | 54.7 | 355 |
| April | 130 | 56.38 | 485 |
| May | 246 | 59.2 | |
| June | 360 | 60.4 | 801 |
| July | 504 | 61.1 | 832 |
As I have joined the Steem platform on the 28th of December, I still have around 6 days left for July Oh well! Thanks again for the constant support everyone! And sorry again for this long personal rant :)